The Why-I-Am-a-Vegetarian Post

[silburygirl]

Because I've had one of those weeks in which people ask me why I'm a vegetarian (and gaze at me as though they've just noticed the second head sprouting from my shoulder) about ten million times and I have a long, rambling answer

Comments

[pigwidgeon37]

Being a vegetarian for ethical reasons and for the love of animals is admirable. Not turning into a militant, eeek-you're-eating-meat vegetarian for the very same reasons is even more of an achievement.
I wish I could be one, but I can't. All I can do is eat meat only when I absoluly have to, and - if I can manage - buy from farmers who keep their animals under humane conditions.

[silburygirl]

Oh, shit. I forgot I was signed into that account... (I can trust you to be discreet, non? Or will Obliviate be necessary?)

I try to stay mellow about most things (except when I'm being bitchy :D).

The not eating meat part isn't a particular accomplishment-I didn't care for it to begin with, so it was a bit like giving up radishes. Like Shiv said above, I don't feel like I'm missing out.

And I think that the humane conditions bit is the most important, to be honest-feedlots are disturbing.

[pigwidgeon37]

I'm the soul of discretion. Only two brain cells to rub together, hence I won't risk losing 50% of brain mass by Obliviate ;-)

Well, if you don't care for it in the first place, no, it probably isn't an accomplishment. It's a bit like people admiring me for not eating chocolate or ice cream, but I just don't like it.
The problem arises when you're a meat-eater with a conscience.

[silburygirl]

Eeeeexcellent...

No chocolate or ice cream? Eeek! (Actually, I would give both up before I gave up cheese-vegan, I am not.)

[pigwidgeon37]

Cheese would be impossible to give up. It's bad enough that here in Ankara you get 1001 kinds of sheep-milk-based cheese, which are different only because of their labels. The taste is more or less the same.
Visiting friends always have to bring me cheese. When my best friend came at Christmas, she gifted me with a perfectly aged Camembert. Poor Janine, her suitcase stank like a morgue after an electircity blackout...

[silburygirl]

That would be awful-kind of like being relegated to different kinds of cheddar for life. Eeeek.

Poor Janine, her suitcase stank like a morgue after an electircity blackout...

I can imagine... The things we do for our friends.

[pigwidgeon37]

Same thing happened to me, btw, and I could have hit myself over the head for being so bloody scatterbrained.

[silburygirl]

And now you know my deep, dark secret. *wails* And I was being so subtle about it this time!

[pigwidgeon37]

Me too, subtleness incarnate. But I guess nobody realized. Have you deleted the corpus delicti?

[silburygirl]

Yes, the offending comment is gone. One of those times when I hit 'post comment' and then realised what I had done.